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Lords Chamber
Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Suitability for Fixed Term Recall) Order 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) The other is standard recall, where offenders are recalled to prison and remain in custody until the - Speech Link
2: Lord McNally (LD - Life peer) The Minister knows the crisis in our prison system. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bird (XB - Life peer) When I go to Pentonville, the first thing I ask is, “How many people did well at school?” - Speech Link
4: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) We know that a large number of people in prison, particularly in the male estate, are dyslexic. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 09 Jan 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) withdrawn from a Member of Parliament with a prison in his own area. - Speech Link
2: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) The latest figures show that the reoffending rate among those leaving prison has increased. - Speech Link
3: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) I am going to remain on the subject of the prison estate. - Speech Link
4: Kate Osamor (LAB - Edmonton) I have been working with a constituent whose son sadly took his own life in Pentonville last year. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service - Tue 04 Jul 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Robert Neill (CON - Bromley and Chislehurst) capacity, the projected prison population and overcrowding; the quality of the prison estate; the prison - Speech Link
2: Conor McGinn (IND - St Helens North) keep them in prison. - Speech Link
3: Andy Slaughter (LAB - Hammersmith) I agree that prison chaplains, prison priests, prison vicars and prison imams—we have an excellent imam - Speech Link
4: Ellie Reeves (LAB - Lewisham West and Penge) Last month the chief inspector of prisons inspected HMP Pentonville, which was originally designed to - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Easter Adjournment - Thu 30 Mar 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Matt Rodda (LAB - Reading East) too—we have a monarch buried in our town centre.The gaol was designed by the architect who designed Pentonville - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Industrial Action - Wed 11 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Lord Balfe (CON - Life peer) I see here shades of 1972: the dockers in Pentonville prison and a Government completely out of control - Speech Link
2: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) He raised the spectre of people going to prison, but that is not the case. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Prison Officers: Occupational Pension - Thu 16 Jun 2022
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Thomas of Gresford (LDEM - Life peer) The Minister referred to challenging conditions in prison. - Speech Link
2: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (CON - Life peer) Indeed, as we are on the topic of retirement of prison officers, one of the things that prison officers - Speech Link
3: Lord Suri (CON - Life peer) My Lords, I note that I was a member of the board of visitors at HM Prison Pentonville. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Basildon (LAB - Life peer) We are losing experienced prison officers, yet the Government’s response, that prison officers work later - Speech Link
5: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (CON - Life peer) A prison officer can retire at an age between 65 and 68. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill
Report stage:Report: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Wed 13 Jan 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bruce of Bennachie (LDEM - Life peer) The law needs to protect them in their duties—we are talking of the police and Prison Service, in Scotland—and - Speech Link
2: Lord King of Bridgwater (CON - Life peer) many noble Lords saw the letter in today’s Times from the Reverend Jonathan Aitken, the chaplain to Pentonville - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Prisons: Remand - Wed 21 Oct 2020
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) HMPPS closely monitors prison population forecasts and is committed to always having enough prison places - Speech Link
2: Lord German (LDEM - Life peer) Given that about half of them will not get an immediate prison sentence, that 37% of all imprisoned children - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of London (Bishops - Bishops) Her Majesty’s Prison Pentonville alone has over 400 prisoners waiting for unprecedented periods—of over - Speech Link
4: Lord Dholakia (LDEM - Life peer) My Lords, the percentage of black youngsters in prison far exceeds their representation in the community - Speech Link
5: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (CON - Life peer) We have done a lot in the Prison Service since the beginning of this pandemic to exactly that end. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 25 Feb 2020
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Robert Buckland (CON - South Swindon) million in a pilot scheme to support individuals released from three named prisons: Bristol, Leeds and Pentonville - Speech Link
2: Robert Buckland (CON - South Swindon) It is important to remember that many of our veterans serve in our Prison Service as prison officers, - Speech Link
3: Lucy Frazer (CON - South East Cambridgeshire) I am looking forward to visiting the prison in the hon. - Speech Link
4: Lucy Frazer (CON - South East Cambridgeshire) When I met prison officers at HMP Whitemoor after they experienced a terrible incident in their prison - Speech Link
5: Lucy Frazer (CON - South East Cambridgeshire) He is absolutely right about protecting our prison officers. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Prisons - Tue 29 Oct 2019
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Beecham (LAB - Life peer) How long are prisoners and prison staff expected to endure what the Prison Reform Trust describes as - Speech Link
2: Lord Bird (CB - Life peer) That would reduce the need to put people in prison, as they would not be committing crime. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Berridge (CON - Life peer) support worker and accommodation for two years upon release has just started in Bristol, Leeds and Pentonville - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of Winchester (Bishops - Bishops) Winchester, a Victorian prison. - Speech Link